Legal Opinion
Burroughs Wellcome & Co. v. Nion Corp.
District Court, S.D. California
Decided May 31, 1945No. 3843PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. F. T. O’CONNOR, District Judge.
The plaintiff and defendant both claim ownership of a similar trademark, Avicap or Avicaps, and their right to register the same as a trademark for use on vitamin capsules.
It is admitted that the product manufactured by each is the same, but with slightly different word descriptions. The product of the plaintiff is: “a polyvitamin product containing six essential vitamins (A, D, Bi, B2, C and nicotinic acid amide) encapsulated in gelatin”.
The product of the defendant is: “a vitamin product containing 25,000 units of vitamin A encapsulated in gelatin”.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
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